{"query": "Easton: Courses", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d264f078d165", "title": "Easton: Courses", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When David was not permitted to build the temple, he proceeded, among the last acts of his life, with the assistance of Zadok and Ahimelech, to organize the priestly and musical services to be conduct"}, {"id": "card_n_96e5bd97e36d", "title": "Easton: Zacharias", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A priest of the course of Abia, the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which the priests had been originally divided by David (1 Chr. 23:1-19). Only four of these courses or “families” of the"}, {"id": "card_n_ab036c3999bf", "title": "Easton: Jachin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Firm. (1.) The fourth son of Simeon (Gen. 46:10), called also Jarib (1 Chr. 4:24). (2.) The head of one of the courses (the twenty-first) of priests (1 Chr. 24:17). (3.) One of the priests who returne"}, {"id": "card_n_c4cdbc2a392a", "title": "Easton: Joiarib", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(whom Jehovah defends) = Jehoiarib. (1.) The founder of one of the courses of the priests (Neh. 11:10). (2.) Neh. 11:5; a descendant of Judah. (3.) Neh. 12:6. (4.) Ezra 8:16, a “man of understanding” "}, {"id": "card_n_8bde6e74f4ef", "title": "Easton: Pethahiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Loosed of the Lord. (1.) The chief of one of the priestly courses (the nineteenth) in the time of David (1 Chr. 24:16). (2.) A Levite (Ezra 10:23). (3.) Neh. 9:5. (4.) A descendant of Judah who had so"}, {"id": "card_n_a14864f7e3e9", "title": "Easton: Abia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "My father is the Lord, the Greek form of Abijah, or Abijam (Matt. 1:7), instead of Abiah (1 Chr. 7:8). In Luke 1:5, the name refers to the head of the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which Davi"}, {"id": "card_n_bdfd876b5456", "title": "Easton: Levy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Kings 4:6, R.V.; 5:13), forced service. The service of tributaries was often thus exacted by kings. Solomon raised a “great levy” of 30,000 men, about two per cent. of the population, to work for h"}, {"id": "card_n_cc0339a0cc7c", "title": "Easton: Jedaiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Invoker of Jehovah. The son of Shimri, a chief Simeonite (1 Chr. 4:37). (2.) One of those who repaired the walls of Jerusalem after the return from Babylon (Neh. 3:10). (3.) Knowing Jehovah. The "}, {"id": "card_n_017f544c3871", "title": "Easton: Zaccur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mindful. (1.) Father of Shammua, who was one of the spies sent out by Moses (Num. 13:4). (2.) A Merarite Levite (1 Chr. 24:27). (3.) A son of Asaph, and chief of one of the courses of singers as arran"}, {"id": "card_c_1c7dfe9f08c4", "title": "Easton: Courses references Ahimelech", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Ahimelech (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_11ddb4adaf5a", "title": "Easton: Courses references David", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions David (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_3b19a8c3b593", "title": "Easton: Courses references Eleazar", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Eleazar (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_e8023b5d491e", "title": "Easton: Courses references Hezekiah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Hezekiah (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_5a94ba7af898", "title": "Easton: Courses references Ithamar", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Ithamar (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_6c426f034ff5", "title": "Easton: Courses references Zadok", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Zadok (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_2a67111f61f5", "title": "Easton: Eliashib", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God will restore. (1.) A priest, head of one of the courses of the priests of the time of David (1 Chr. 24:12). (2.) A high priest in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (Neh. 12:22, 23). He rebuilt th"}, {"id": "card_n_a5c7bc809721", "title": "Easton: Shecaniah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One intimate with Jehovah. (1.) A priest to whom the tenth lot came forth when David divided the priests (1 Chr. 24:11). (2.) One of the priests who were set “to give to their brethren by courses” of "}, {"id": "card_n_ef42eceb1b0a", "title": "Easton: Sceva", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An implement, a Jew, chief of the priests at Ephesus (Acts 19:13-16); i.e., the head of one of the twenty-four courses of the house of Levi. He had seven sons, who “took upon them to call over them wh"}, {"id": "card_n_50398b704081", "title": "Easton: Chaldea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The southern portion of Babylonia, Lower Mesopotamia, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used of the whole of the Mesopotamian plain. The Hebrew name is Kasdim, which is us"}, {"id": "card_n_b18904748fad", "title": "Easton: Pashur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Release. (1.) The son of Immer (probably the same as Amariah, Neh. 10:3; 12:2), the head of one of the priestly courses, was “chief governor [Heb. paqid nagid, meaning “deputy governor”] of the temple"}]}